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Re:Why I like Java by anon4 on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @04:31AM (#7464589)
Well, if I were making the test framework for this test, I'd only send ASCII text to the programs.

It's a trivial test, so I'll give you trivial input and not have you worry about "what if someone gives me random bytes".

The test isn't to demonstrate you know off the top of your head how to deal with an edge case. But if it were and I were allowed to pick my language, I'd pick bash and just write

  cat
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Re:Why I like Java by cbsmith on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @04:36AM (#7464604)
> The test isn't to demonstrate you know off the top of your head how to deal with an edge case.

The only edge case is knowing you need to flush the output, which is relevant whether you send ASCII text or not. The other edge cases around ASCII are just whether you use the correct API's or not.

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